should have moral clarity and know the difference between right or wrong. and he s just toxic. i mean, you know, i think a lot of the things he broke needed to be broken, but he doesn t know how to fix things again. it s not okay to just break. you ve got to fix it and make it better. and he hasn t done that. republican presidential candidate nikki haley with that direct criticism of donald trump. that was pretty tough, huh? yes. in a moment, we ll show you new polling that has president biden leading trump in a hypothetical rematch, thanks to a major bump from two groups of voters. we ll tell you who they are. plus, the key moments from a contentious and dramatic senate hearing yesterday. ugh. with social media ceos. that hearing included a surprise moment from mark zuckerberg. yeah. really incredible. he should have kept that surprise to himself. i feel bad for you. no, come on. i mean, it just seems so staged and preplanned. it was quite a moment of
kick russian out of ukraine. there is no question that president xi is watching. putin is watching to see if the west, if the united states and europe lose interest in ukraine and if we do, then i think it potentially gives him a green light. so, we are on the cusp of the post world war ii order where big nations didn t change their borders through force coming apart. and i think right now the most important thing that we could do to stop china from making a move on taiwan is to make clear to the ukrainians we re with them today and in the future to make sure they regain their own sovereignty. senator chris murphy, thank you very much for being on this morning. we will be in touch. so we are well into the fourth hour of morning joe right now. let s talk more about the bills to help veterans that republicans blocked. joining us now, retired sergeant ted corcoran. he s a disabled veteran and a veteran advocate who suffers from the effects of burn pits. he s now organizing
january 6 cases. and those five-year sentences were against people who were convicted of assaulted police officers. he was not convicted of assaulting an officer, nor did he enter the capitol but there were other aspects of his conduct that were so serious that prosecutors have decided to bring the first ever terrorism enhancement. they re asking the judge to use this terrorism enhancement on his sentence which would add about a year to his sentence. and what that means is that they are saying that his conduct was designed to influence government through coercion or intimidation. you might think weren t there hundreds people that day that fit that bill. this is the fir time the justice department is making that argument in court and it is because his case was particularly serious. he came to the capitol with a holstered handgun, he s accused of urging the rioters on and being a key figure in breaching the west side of the capitol and later convicted of trying to essentially threatening
spoke to a former neighbor named sarah smith, and she had interesting things to say bt the shooter and his mother. she said it is common for the shooter 26-year-old chris mercer to have a holstered handgun on his hip even when he did the mun dain chores like taking out the trash or going to the mailbox. this past april she began to hear fights between the shooter and her mother, and she would hear the doors slam and the cabinets shut, and those fights were about him trying to get out of the house and finding a job. we tried to reach out to smith, ashleigh, but at this point, she said that she is not willing to talk anymore about the shooter or his mother. ashleigh? and that the mother is extraordinarily difficult to track down, and almost going underground. remarkable. one last question for you. friday is a big day where you are, and that beautiful quiet place is going to all of the
this has a he said/she said element about this because you have shellie zimmerman. her father is on scene, and george zimmerman there is as well, and according to shellie zimmerman in the initial call to police, george zimmerman, her current husband whom she filed divorce against, is being aggressive and threatening and putting his hand on his holstered handgun, but accord ago to the deputy chief telling us, that apparently george zimmerman claims that it was shellie zimmerman s father who initially was the aggressor. so, police right there on the scene as you mentioned, shep, trying to figure this out, to try and then determine whether george zimmerman, or perhaps shellie zimmerman s father, faces some sort of eventual charges. shepard: we do know now george zimmerman is no longer in protective custody. he is in the yard. the chopper spotted him there, speaking with the police department. new details now. the police arrived. shellie and george zimmerman,